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A few weeks back, VBS correspondent Eddy Moretti sat down with Lewis Lapham, the historian and wordsmith at the helm of Lapham’s Quarterly. Published four times a year, the journal tackles sweeping cultural topics, pulling editorial support from friends like Sophocles, Groucho Marx, and George Packer. Prior to founding the eponymous magazine, Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Weekly, where he still acts as correspondent and editor. Tune in as Lapham gives current events the historical treatment and explains the happy marriage between the media and money.

A few weeks back, VBS correspondent Eddy Moretti sat down with Lewis Lapham, the historian and wordsmith at the helm of Lapham’s Quarterly. Published four times a year, the journal tackles sweeping cultural topics, pulling editorial support from friends like Sophocles, Groucho Marx, and George Packer. Prior to founding the eponymous magazine, Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Weekly, where he still acts as correspondent and editor. Tune in as Lapham gives current events the historical treatment and explains the happy marriage between the media and money.

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A few weeks back, VBS correspondent Eddy Moretti sat down with Lewis Lapham, the historian and wordsmith at the helm of Lapham’s Quarterly. Published four times a year, the journal tackles sweeping cultural topics, pulling editorial support from friends like Sophocles, Groucho Marx, and George Packer. Prior to founding the eponymous magazine, Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Weekly, where he still acts as correspondent and editor. Tune in as Lapham gives current events the historical treatment and explains the happy marriage between the media and money.

A few weeks back, VBS correspondent Eddy Moretti sat down with Lewis Lapham, the historian and wordsmith at the helm of Lapham’s Quarterly. Published four times a year, the journal tackles sweeping cultural topics, pulling editorial support from friends like Sophocles, Groucho Marx, and George Packer. Prior to founding the eponymous magazine, Lapham was the editor of Harper’s Weekly, where he still acts as correspondent and editor. Tune in as Lapham gives current events the historical treatment and explains the happy marriage between the media and money.

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It wasn’t a political rally, said the comedians, but it wasn’t a joke either. Looking out across the crush of people who swarmed the National Mall in Washington, DC, for “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s singing, dancing, joking extravaganza, things didn’t look precisely sane. And that was partly the idea.

It wasn’t a political rally, said the comedians, but it wasn’t a joke either. Looking out across the crush of people who swarmed the National Mall in Washington, DC, for “The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s singing, dancing, joking extravaganza, things didn’t look precisely sane. And that was partly the idea.

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Earlier this year right-wing ideologues Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh burned up the airways with excerpts from an interview by former Polish President Lech Walesa, arguing the co-founder of the Solidarity movement and anti-Communism crusader was warning that President Obama was leading the U.S. into the shackles of socialism.
It turns out Beck and Limbaugh were merely manipulating the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s words. Classy! Here in a recent interview with VICE’s Eddy Moretti, Walesa sets the record straight. Turns out he was merely being used by the right-wing pundits for their own propaganda and actually considers Obama a leader of world reform.

Earlier this year right-wing ideologues Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh burned up the airways with excerpts from an interview by former Polish President Lech Walesa, arguing the co-founder of the Solidarity movement and anti-Communism crusader was warning that President Obama was leading the U.S. into the shackles of socialism.
It turns out Beck and Limbaugh were merely manipulating the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s words. Classy! Here in a recent interview with VICE’s Eddy Moretti, Walesa sets the record straight. Turns out he was merely being used by the right-wing pundits for their own propaganda and actually considers Obama a leader of world reform.

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GOProud is Jimmy LaSalvia’s answer to the approximately 1.2 million voters who identify as gay and are, in his words, “certainly not liberal.” In this discussion with host Eddy Moretti, LaSalvia recalls his formative political years growing up in a military family at the peak of the Cold War and attending college in South Dakota’s Black Hills. This upbringing instilled him with a lifelong affinity for the “Libertarian mountain man” ideal espoused by Barry Goldwater and Dick Cheney. (The latter’s photo hangs in the GOProud offices in lieu of a religious icon.)

GOProud is Jimmy LaSalvia’s answer to the approximately 1.2 million voters who identify as gay and are, in his words, “certainly not liberal.” In this discussion with host Eddy Moretti, LaSalvia recalls his formative political years growing up in a military family at the peak of the Cold War and attending college in South Dakota’s Black Hills. This upbringing instilled him with a lifelong affinity for the “Libertarian mountain man” ideal espoused by Barry Goldwater and Dick Cheney. (The latter’s photo hangs in the GOProud offices in lieu of a religious icon.)

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In this episode, VBS travels to Washington DC on the anniversary of MLK’s famous “I Have a Dream…” civil rights rally to experience Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Christian Revival. We get to watch him kneel in front of the Lincoln Memorial, wrap himself in the Stars and Stripes, and praise Jesus. We then take the camera across the street to Al Sharpton’s rival rally and see what that crowd thinks about the ole’ Beckster.

In this episode, VBS travels to Washington DC on the anniversary of MLK’s famous “I Have a Dream…” civil rights rally to experience Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Christian Revival. We get to watch him kneel in front of the Lincoln Memorial, wrap himself in the Stars and Stripes, and praise Jesus. We then take the camera across the street to Al Sharpton’s rival rally and see what that crowd thinks about the ole’ Beckster.

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In this episode of “Politicians, Pundits, and Other People,” Eddy Moretti pays a visit to Reason magazine, speaking with sagacious senior editor Michael Moynihan about the magazine’s history, the finer points of Libertarianism, and why Glenn Beck is a bad poster boy for the cause.

In this episode of “Politicians, Pundits, and Other People,” Eddy Moretti pays a visit to Reason magazine, speaking with sagacious senior editor Michael Moynihan about the magazine’s history, the finer points of Libertarianism, and why Glenn Beck is a bad poster boy for the cause.

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In this episode of “Politicians, Pundits and Other People,” Eddy Moretti travels to Washington, D.C., to talk to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, perennial presidential candidate and peacenik conscience of the Democratic party, about his vehement opposition to war in Afghanistan and intervention in Pakistan.

In this episode of “Politicians, Pundits and Other People,” Eddy Moretti travels to Washington, D.C., to talk to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, perennial presidential candidate and peacenik conscience of the Democratic party, about his vehement opposition to war in Afghanistan and intervention in Pakistan.